So this week was kind of a crazy. On Monday we had a good p-day we just went out to the Ward mission leaders house and played games and stuff and just hung out it was good! And then ya we just did stuff and then on Tuesday we had a good day we went and chopped more wood for a less active and it was a good day and then that night we had a good lesson with Bro McLafferty it was a great one he is going through a lot these past couple weeks and it was good and then Wednesday was the crazy day we were having a Coordination with the sisters in our ward and we were splitting up the ward list and then we get a call from president and Elder Gwynn answered it and he was told he was getting transferred so that was crazy so I got a new companion on Wednesday. He was told at 11 and the AP's picked us up at 12 and we drove up to Princeton, MN where he was going and where I was getting my new comp from and ya it was like a 45 min drive there and then one back and them we went to work. My new companions name is Elder Kjar he is from Eagle, ID. Ya that day we found a new investigator and it was cool so we knocked on the door someone said I will go get my mom and and then his girl downstairs opened the window and we taught her through the window for most of it and them she came to the door to get the Book of Mormon and it turns out she is in the 11th grade so we are bringing the sisters with us to pass her off to them so ya it was good though.
So ya the rest of the week on Thursday we had to bike 30 mins to the library and I found a way that cut through a park and then I was going over a bridge and I got to the end and started to go down and it ended at some water and so I hit the brakes and turned around so that was fun. Ya super good highlights the rest of the week. On Friday we were supposed to go tracting At 6, but i felt like we should go try and see a less active first instead of who we were supposed to see at 7 and we biked all the way and
then they left as we were getting there so I was like man why did we bike all the way over here for this. So we biked all the way back to where we were going to go tracting and on the street we found Michael and had a good lesson with him and he said he had gotten home like just 30 mins ago. So if we hadn't come later we wouldn't of found him so that was awesome it was a cool expreince. The spirit knows best. Just not always what you think it will be!
But ya then on Saturday we had plans to go work around where we had dinner and then our dinner ended up calling and bring us food at 12 so it would of been real easy to just change our plans to be closer, but we kept the same plans and becasue of that we taught 3 lesson to new people we had never met. One was super awesome We taught a lady named Ivo who if from......... Talladega........ Alabama so that was cool Talladega is not far from Birmingham, but it was great. She was super into it and had great questions and it was awesome, but she is just visiting here for 3 months with her daughter and her son in law she said she thinks they won't let us come teach her so we gave her our number and the Book of Mormon and encouraged her to call us and if not us then the missionariews in Talledaga, but it was a super awesome lesson! It was a great night. That night and then Sunday was good we had a lesson on fasting in gospel principles and some of the Africans faith is amazing this new lady fasts every Wednesday because that is the day she was born and she does it just to get closer to God it is great to see. It is amazing how much faith these people from Africa have i love to see them embrace the restored gospel! But from my studies this week. So as a zone we are studying the Jesus Christ part of the topical guide just the heading that says Jesus Christ and so I was doing that and this Sunday before church I was reading a part it said to read in Luke 2 and the verse that I gained a lot from was verse 51 so this is the part where Joseph and Mary find Christ teaching in the temple and this is the verse i learned from 51 "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart." So it says in that verse and he was subject unto them and so Christ was teaching in the temple doing Heavenly Father"s will but when his earthly parents beckoned him he came and followed even though he may of not been done he followed and I realized it was because it is a commandment to obey thy father and thy mother and Christ was perfectly obedient to all of God's commandments and so when his mother called him he followed and so it shows the example that he really set even though
we don't understand all things at the time we must still be obedient to the Lord's commandments Christ showed us the way it has been an amazing experience so far studying the topical guide Jesus Christ it has made me grow closer to him and has strengthened my testimony of him it is amazing and I invite all to do it as well it is an awesome study I have learned so much! Well I hope you all have a great week.
Love
Elder howe
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